Sentence examples for almost peremptory from inspiring English sources

Musa ate in moderation, but with quick, restless, almost peremptory movements.

It contributes an almost peremptory silence to the near-camera heroics of language and gesture.

After an almost peremptory start, the performance was thoughtful, nuanced and mercurial.

I open the Washington Post to find a leader criticising the new Hungarian government in the most peremptory and sweeping terms.

While still at school, I took part in a masterclass at the Royal College of Music with Nadia Boulanger, then over 80. Shrouded head to toe in black, her English almost incomprehensible, her commands peremptory, she came from another era.

Race-based peremptory strikes are almost always invisible, or at least, as Batson has shown, hard to prove.

There was a lot of grumbling about Mr Summers's peremptory style, as well.

Hemingway, unshaven and peremptory, talks in Hemingwayese about death, fear, and "grace under pressure".

It almost always entails an expert's assistance in the attorney's use of peremptory challenges — the right to reject a certain number of potential jurors without stating a reason — during jury selection.

Peremptories are also used to remove a potential juror who almost all would agree is biased but who steadfastly maintains he can be fair.

The thing with peremptory strikes is that lawyers can use them to challenge potential jurors for almost any conceivable reason -- except a discriminatory reason, like race or gender.